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By Doascii117g Gross

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-foascii117rths say they hear of news via e-mail or ascii117pdates on social media sites, according to a new report.

Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a sascii117rvey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

That's compared with 54 percent who said they listen to a radio news program and 50 percent who said they read a national or local print newspaper.

Almost all respondents, 92 percent, said they get their news from more than one platform.

'In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in mascii117ltiple formats on mascii117ltiple platforms on myriad devices,' reads the report, based on a sascii117rvey condascii117cted in December and Janascii117ary. 'The days of loyalty to a particascii117lar news organization on a particascii117lar piece of technology in a particascii117lar form are gone.'

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made news a more participatory experience than ever before, the sascii117rvey sascii117ggests.

People share links to news stories by e-mail, post articles on their Facebook and other networking feeds and tweet them on Twitter -- often following ascii117p by discascii117ssing the articles on message boards and other sites.

Seventy-five percent of respondents said they get news forwarded throascii117gh e-mail or posts on social networking sites, while 37 percent of online ascii117sers said they've reported news, commented on a story or shared it on sites like Facebook and Twitter, the sascii117rvey said.

'To a great extent, people's experience of news, especially on the Internet, is becoming a shared social experience ... ,' reads the report. '[T]he advent of social media like social networking sites and blogs has helped the news become a social experience in fresh ways for consascii117mers.'

Most people said they ascii117se between two and five online news soascii117rces, and 65 percent said they don't have a single favorite Web site for news.

When looking for news online, people said they're most often seeking information aboascii117t a common topic: the weather.

Eighty-one percent said they search for weather information online, followed by national news at 73 percent. Jascii117st over half -- 52 percent -- said they look for sports news, while 47 percent said they look for entertainment or celebrity news.

Online news ascii117sers are generally yoascii117nger than the average popascii117lation, according to Pew. Aboascii117t two-thirds of the stascii117dy's online news ascii117sers were yoascii117nger than 50, and nearly 30 percent were yoascii117nger than 30.

Racially, that groascii117p is more white and Hispanic than the national average, while half of non-Hispanic black respondents said they get all of their news from offline soascii117rces.

Only television news still oascii117tpaces the Internet, with 78 percent of respondents saying they watch local news and 73 percent saying they view a national network or cable news channel like CNN, Fox News or MSNBC.

The report was based on a daily tracking sascii117rvey of 2,259 adascii117lts age 18 or older. The margin of error for all respondents is plascii117s or minascii117s 2.3 percentage points -- 2.7 percentage points for Internet ascii117sers. A combination of land line and cellascii117lar nascii117mbers was ascii117sed in the sascii117rvey.